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I just got a ATS 505 from c. crane and want to setup a long wire antena
the informatin sheet they gave me says to keep it away from foil
insualtion and things like that well i have a metal roof and i am sure
that is afecting my reception i have tried a few things i have tried
atached the end of a coax cable comming from the tv antena to the
telescopic antena on the radio and that doesn to seam to do much but i
want to know if i can run a whire along the tv antena towner that is
metal and to my radio

what is the best way to seup an antena?

Well first of all your TV antenna will be too short to pick up shortwave
signals very well. You might try connecting just the outer shield of the
coax to the radio's antenna input and see if that works better.

I believe the ATS-505 is a portable radio, so you may want to construct
something like the following:
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc/portablewire.html . All you need to do is
wrap some wire around the radio's whip antenna, and get the other end of the
wire up high somewhere. Or you may just want to get a wire antenna up high
and attach it directly to the radio's whip, but this may cause overloading
since most portables use a lot of preamplification to compensate for the
relatively short whip.


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Tom Sevart N2UHC
Frontenac, KS
http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc